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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

Thomas Nagel

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

Thomas Nagel

We assume that our own advances in objectivity are steps along a path that extends beyond them and beyond all our capacities. But even allowing unlimited time, or an unlimited number of generations, to take as many successive steps as we like, the process can never be completed.... What is wanted is some way of making the most objective standpoint the basis of action.

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